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I have executed many commands from this, installed mandoc, those(I guess) or any thing else(which I don't know) have changed my man pages output decoration.

In previous my man pages show SYNOPSIS in bold and all function's name. And outputs text are spread over the terminal window. Now, these features are lost.

Previous output of man malloc -

previous man page output

Current output of man malloc -

current man page output

Provided that, if I ran PAGER=less man <man_page_name> then the function's name are shown in bold but not spread over terminal window.

Current output of PAGER=less man malloc -

less_man_malloc

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and provided some commands outputs mentioned here

$ env is here. I provided this in external link as the output is so large.

$ update-alternatives --display pager 

pager - auto mode
  link currently points to /bin/less
/bin/less - priority 77
  slave pager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz
/bin/more - priority 50
  slave pager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/more.1.gz
/usr/bin/pg - priority 10
  slave pager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pg.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/bin/less'.

$ man -D malloc 

man: invalid option -- 'D'
usage: man [-acfhklw] [-C file] [-M path] [-m path] [-S subsection]
   [[-s] section] name ...

Now, what can I do so that man command works as previous?

alhelal
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  • -D is a perfectly valid option for man on Ubuntu 14.04, so did you install another version of man? What does type -a man output? – muru Sep 20 '17 at 12:19
  • What is the current value of $TERM? – waltinator Sep 20 '17 at 13:53
  • @muru see here. – alhelal Sep 20 '17 at 14:19
  • @waltinator see the output of env provided in my question. xterm – alhelal Sep 20 '17 at 14:20
  • In your env dump (would have been nicer as env | sort) that your PATH is unreasonably long, fix that. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:... 1825 chars, 172 dirs, 11 unique. – waltinator Sep 21 '17 at 08:36
  • Try it in a "naked" bash shell, with no initialization bash --norc – waltinator Sep 21 '17 at 08:40
  • @waltinator I don't understand what do you want to say. Would you explain please? – alhelal Sep 21 '17 at 16:48
  • @banda-muhammad-al-helal Type the bash --norc command, then try your man command in that shell. When you're finished, type exit or ^D to exit that shell, and return to your original. – waltinator Sep 22 '17 at 14:10
  • @waltinator no change seemed. – alhelal Sep 22 '17 at 16:36

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